CVE-2005-2714: Apple Mac OS X

Medium severity, CVSS 6.8. EPSS: 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

passwd in Directory Services in Mac OS X 10.3.x before 10.3.9 and 10.4.x before 10.4.5 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the .pwtmp.[PID] temporary file.

Affected products

• Apple Mac OS X: version 10.3 only; version 10.3.1 only; version 10.3.2 only; version 10.3.3 only; version 10.3.4 only; version 10.3.5 only; …
• Apple Mac OS X Server: version 10.3 only; version 10.3.1 only; version 10.3.2 only; version 10.3.3 only; version 10.3.4 only; version 10.3.5 only; …

Published 2005-12-31. Last modified 2026-06-16.